Hi I might need to use iTextSharp for a project I'm working on. I'd prefer to use the latest version so I'm trying to understand what the full implications of the GNU Affero General Public License is. I've read though the FSF documents but still have questions. I'm not going to modify it in any way, just call it from a component (window...
If I sell my application which is develop in VS 2008 which contains some crystal reports too then Do I need a Crystal Reports license? If Yes then what would be the price? ...
I just started working for an official non-profit organization, and am finding out that some commercial software vendors offer free or discounted licenses for non-profits. For example, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence) offers free licenses and Adobe offers some of their products at a discount. Are there any other good development tools or se...
I am thinking of selling a piece of PHP software (set of scripts). Naturally, since it is PHP the source code is freely available once people obtain the code, so I am looking into how I can "legally" protect it from just being shared and distributed without me making any money. I know this is not going to protect it in practice, I just w...
Every software I have seen, contain copyright statement at the beginning of a file and takes pretty much lines of comment. Therefore you have to scroll down to see the code, which is a bit annoying, especially when code itself is very short. I think that it would be nicer to keep copyright statement at the bottom of a file and join all ...
I have a commercial web application and just found a great JavaScript library I'd like to use. This library is licensed under Apache v2. How do I properly (and legally) use the library in my public web application? Since I like to achieve as much performance as possible in my web application, can I do the following: Can I remove the ...
Suppose I have a commercial license for Qt (say, for 4.5.2 ), is it possible to reuse part of the QtCreator (say, version 2.0) source code to develop a completely proprietary software? I read the QtLicensing information, but it doesn't provide any information about QtCreator licensing. ...
A simple question I suppose, with a potentially complicated answer: Is the Windows SDK free as in Beer? I know it provides virtually the same compilers and commandline tools that the paid versions provide, and I believe you can only (legally) use it on a Windows machine, but am not even sure of anything more... I'm not well versed...
I am considering using db4o as the data store on a public facing website. The question comes with licensing... My understanding is that if you are an "end user" you can freely use the code. Is a website end user or distribution? MySQL is licensed under GPLv2 and people use it all the time as a backend data store. Any lawyers out t...
Hello all, I have a set of PHP scripts sitting on several clients servers and I want to get the mac address for that server so that I can store it and determine that the PHP scripts are not being used on another server. How can I get the Mac address of a computer using PHP somehow? Is there a better way to determine if the PHP scripts...
Can you use GPL code on a commercial website? Do you have to supply a link to the source code for that software? Does it violate the GPL license if you use non-GPL open source software with the GPL software? Cheers. ...
For example, say I am building product abc and instead of building my own username password infrastructure, menuing, etc., I use a CMS. Instead of just having the CMS for normal CMS type stuff, I build my product into it for the local Intranet (just an example). when I say I have created product abc do I have to say "Product ABC with C...
While reading article A Practical Legal Guide to iPhone Application Development I was wondering by information in comment titled "“Dynamic linking” and the GPL". There are opposing views within the legal community regarding the “dynamic linking”-“derivative work” issue as it relates to the GPL license; and no U.S. court has yet defin...
I'm getting rather confused when looking over the details of the various licenses and was wondering if someone could give me a hand. Basically, I'm looking at making a simple SSH client to release on the app store. All other SSH clients on the app store charge and, although I'm sure they'd be better than what I'd make, I'd like to add a ...
Regarding enterprise license Does this license entitle us to install our product in unlimited number of machines (where the components will be used for different clients)? The license described in these links: http://www.obout.com/inc/user_license.txt http://www.obout.com/inc/purchasedetails.aspx is a bit misleading, The second link ...
I have a open source .NET application. I want to brand it with my website and offer users to purchase a license to remove it. But how can I do this if I give out the source code? What is the best way to do this without effecting performance too? ...
Ok, here's the scenario. I want to develop an application that will be done in C#. The application core will be released under CC0 with some closed-source plugins ehancing non-essential functionality. Anyway, I plan to use a GPL library as back-end to one of the plugins, it will be released under CC0 like the core. In the end what I will...
Is there a public project to build a dataset describing all common software licenses with information on license name, text, compatibility with others and regular expression patterns to identify it? Something similar to oh-count/licenses.c, but language-independent (JSON or XML) and with more details about each license? I plan to build...
when you use and edit something under GPL licence ? say a program or website design template , how should I write the copy rights now of the new product ? p.s "licence are PITA I never get the sooo many terms and regulations!, i just need simple human answer please." ...
I'm using httpcfg.exe tool from my program. So for the computers that don't have httpcfg in them, can I distribute this tool packaged with my program? Or if I could include Windows Support Tools msi, that would work too, although that would unnecessarily increase the size of my installer. If you're thinking I should've just read the lice...